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The predatory behavior of ants: an impressive panoply of morphological adaptations
Insect Science, EarlyView.This review focuses on predation in ants, showing the wide diversity of cases from solitary foraging to group hunting tactics, as well as the evolution of mandible shape frequently adapted to capture specific prey. Although most ants are generalist feeders, finding their sugary substances directly on plants or indirectly via sap‐sucking insects, some ...
Alain Dejean +6 more
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The free energy of biomembrane and nerve excitation and the role of anesthetics
, 2018 In the electromechanical theory of nerve stimulation, the nerve impulse consists of a traveling region of solid membrane in a liquid environment. Therefore, the free energy necessary to stimulate a pulse is directly related to the free energy difference ...
Heimburg, Thomas +3 more
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.This study compared the ecological toxicity of organic ultraviolet filters, octocrylene (OC) and ethylhexyl salicylate (EHS), on zebrafish embryos and larvae. EHS exhibited higher acute toxicity, causing increased mortality, hypoactive behavior at 50 mg/L, and disruptions in lipid homeostasis, while OC primarily affected hypoxia response and ...
Xiaoyang Lu +5 more
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OPAL Community Environment Report [PDF]
, 2012 The Open Air Laboratories network, or OPAL, as it quickly became known, was launched in 2007 following a successful application to the Big Lottery Fund It was the first time that Big Lottery funding on this scale had been awarded to academic ...
Bachariou, Carolina +7 more
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The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.Short Abstract Risks to soil health from increased flooding and drought due to climate change are a priority risk area for the UK government, but our analysis of two years of UK newspaper coverage on this issue reveals very little attention to it. Our multimodal framing analysis shows that news reports are largely devoid of addressing the root causes ...
Antal Wozniak, Jill E. Hopke
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Invertebrate Survival Journal, 2020 Monocrotophos and glyphosate are two potent organophosphate pesticides used on agricultural farms in India to control insect pests and weeds, respectively.
S Samal, C S K Mishra, S Sahoo
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Designing Web-enabled services to provide damage estimation maps caused by natural hazards [PDF]
, 2010 The availability of building stock inventory data and demographic information is an important requirement for risk assessment studies when attempting to predict and estimate losses due to natural hazards such as earthquakes, storms, floods or tsunamis ...
Bernabe Poveda, Miguel Angel +5 more
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Ibis, EarlyView.Free‐living birds need to acquire enough food to fulfil their energetic needs, which may require more effort in habitats with less favourable conditions. Therefore, to maintain their necessary energy intake, birds need to adjust their foraging behaviour in response to varying habitat conditions.
Renée Veenstra +5 more
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Effect of permanent ground cover on agronomic properties and soil fertility in an organic peach orchard [PDF]
, 2010 In conventional orchards, weeds on the raw are mainly controlled with chemical herbicides because of their efficiency, their low cost and ease of use.
Bussi, Claude +3 more
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